The report says this Windows 10 app has the same basic photo and art editing features as the regular desktop app. It's not clear when Paint will be released in the Windows Store, but it's possible it will be included as part of Microsoft's big Windows 10 Anniversary Update that's due sometime later this summer.

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Microsoft may launch version of Paint as a Windows 10 app

What about putting the Paint app on to an easel in HoloLens and paired it with freshpaint? Would like to see MS upgrade their game. I really want Adobe to feel threatened and work their ass off to realize their PR video on Adobe on Windows. Right now Adobe seems to focus more on iOS apps...

Tbh I like this Win32 to Windows Store thing. However with Centennial I definitely dislike the design inconsistencies. Really irritates me how some apps are like the Windows Store apps while the rest are classic Windows style like tbh it doesn't match for me.

It's like shifting to a new house. Microsoft is slowly shifting the desktop software and features to UWP. Take "right clicking" operation as an example that is slowly integrated into the UWP platform. It's not full featured yet but will definitely improve. If this happens, W10M will also become much more potent and powerful.

I love MS Paint. It's a perfect scratch pad and screenshot handler. I use it quite often whenever I need to scribble something down that would take too long in Visio in order to demonstrate to a collegue. Countless quick tutorials I've held in this way. Its just a super handy tool. Funny, given that it's one of the easiest to create programs.

Exactly. It's more simple and faster to do simple edits like clipping and quick resizing, than opening a much more robust application, like Photoshop, just to do that.
To be honest, they're both pinned side by side to my taskbar :D

Posted with the Windows Central app for Windows 10 on HP 250 G1 notebook. It is a scary old monster, I think :D

MS Office has both store apps and Win32 apps. UWAs may have less features than Win32 apps. MS Paint is a feature-packed application supporting RGB color selection, save image in various formats, grid, rulers, and what not. Win32 apps can be updated to use Windows 10 design but completely discarding them is not a wise decision. Not all Win32 apps can be scrapped and rebuilt as UWAs as UWAs are light weight and are unpredictable. They might crash at any moment and you might lose all of your unsaved data. It has happened to me several times. Once I was typing an email in the Outlook mail app and it crashed. I had not even saved the mail as a draft. So, I generally avoid sending emails through store apps and use outlook.com instead.

Yes, Office's situation is another inconsistency, like most in Windows(10).
I understand, I hope that this application has the same options as the current and more.
I think that the UWP have to be the future, and if the x32 applications can not be rebuilt to UWP, create them again.

What has to be the only goal?
Unify the interface and user experience, as it has raised microsoft, an ecosystem adapted to mosue/tactile, not more inconsistencies.

Snipping Tool is for taking screenshots and doing quick edits. Paint takes existing screenshots and gives you more creative power. Snipping Tool is arguably more practical but Paint is better for, you know, painting.

Same, but I don't think I could use this as a UWP since I usually rely on having multiple paint instances. If they have document tabbing support then could be OK but I would much prefer if it had some kind of multiple window support.

What's interesting about it? Pretty much everything Microsoft does these days in done in sprints, usually weekly ones. HoloLens galaxy explorer thing has been done in 6 sprints. Halo 5 had development series on Youtube across multiple sprints. Windows is even done in sprints. Everything is.